#4634 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Common Wentletrap
🇳🇱 Gewone wenteltrap ·Epitonium clathrus
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © JH · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Léo Souillard · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © AlainP · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Nataël Adam · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Susan Marley · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © lizard--o_o · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Epitonium clathrum , common name the common wentletrap, is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 52 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 665 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Wentletrap
- Nederlands
- Gewone wenteltrap
- scientific name
- Epitonium clathrus
- class
- Gastropoda
- family
- Epitoniidae
- sightings in NL
- 52
- sightings in Europe
- 572
- sightings worldwide
- 665
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,810
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 482316, Wikidata Q1835212, GBIF 4362739, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.